Dinesh D'Souza, a controversial right-wing author and documentary filmmaker, is scheduled to speak at the University of Memphis this October.

D'Souza, whose recent work seeks to establish a link between the Democratic Party and Nazi Germany, will address "the exceptionalness of America and how the surge of Socialism on the left undermines our constitutional republic's values" at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in the University Center. "Trigger warning: America is great," an event flyer reads.

The free and public event is organized by the Memphis chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and will include a question-and-answer session.

D'Souza, a former policy analyst under Ronald Regan, is perhaps best known for his breakout political documentary 2016: Obama's America, followed up with Hillary's America. His most recent book is The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, in which he argues that Hitler drew genocidal inspiration from the Democratic Party of President Andrew Jackson's day. Those claims garnered him a spot on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Hatewatch" news roundup Aug. 2.